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A Kashmiri vegetable vendor holds a basket of bread at a floating market in the interiors of the Dal Lake in Srinagar. Danish Ismail/Reuters

Members of Virginia Tech hold up candles as they listen to taps being played during a commemoration and candlelight vigil on campus in Blacksburg, Virginia yesterday evening. For the first time in five years since a mentally ill student gunned down 32 people, the university held classes on the anniversary of the country's deadliest mass shooting. Chris Keane /Reuters

Pakistani boys, who make a living by collecting recyclable materials and selling them to a recycling factory, shower in a pool of water created by a broken water pipe following their daily work, on a roadside on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP

A Russian policeman passes environmental activists dressed in animal costumes during a protest outside a hotel hosting the "Russian Arctic Oil and Gas" business conference in Moscow. Denis Sinyakov/Reuters

A bald eagle feeds its two eaglets in their nest at Gray's Lake Park in Des Moines, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall/AP

A North Korean family poses in front of a picture of the late leaders Kim Il Sung (l.) and his son Kim Jong Il during a flower show Pyongyang, North Korea. Vincent Yu/AP

A demonstrator with the Occupy Wall Street movement holds a sign in front of Federal Hall, across the street from the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Eric Thayer/Reuters

People visit the Shwedagon Pagoda during Myanmar's New Year Day in Yangon. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

Seasonal asparagus harvesters work on their vegetable crops near Elsholz, southwest of Berlin, Germany, in this aerial photo. Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dapd/AP

The crew of the B-25 "Executive Sweet" take photographs from atop their WW-II bombers at Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. Twenty of the vintage warplanes flew in for the 70th anniversary of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo. Mark Duncan/AP

Padlocks are fixed by lovers at a pedestrian bridge over the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany. Lovers want to fix their love with the lock when they throw the key into the river. In background is the construction site of the new head quarter of the European Central Bank. Michael Probst/AP

Journalists look at a full-size model of Japan's popular robot animation character Gundam standing in front of a new shopping mall in Tokyo's Odaiba waterfront area. The 18-meter (60-foot)-tall Gundam greets shoppers at Diver City Tokyo Plaza which opens on Thursday. Koji Sasahara/AP

An investor uses a pair of binoculars as he looks at an electronic board with stock information at the Iraq Stock Exchange Baghdad. Saad Shalash/Reuters

A calf lies on a road near Lok Kruet village in Aceh Besar. Beawiharta/Reuters

A daily wage worker catches a nap while sitting on a narrow road divider at a wholesale market in New Delhi, India. Saurabh Das/AP

Syrian refugee children chant slogans as they hold the Syrian revolution opposition flag where they live in a temporary home in Qalamoune village, in northern Lebanon. Jamal Saidi/Reuters

Hitching a ride on top a special NASA Boeing 747 jet, the space shuttle Discovery soars past Capitol Hill in Washington, after a flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Discovery, the world's most traveled spaceship, now becomes an attraction at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Rikke Benn and Mads Jensen watch the shuttle Discovery fly down the coast in Cocoa Beach, Florida, one last time. Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today/AP